Phillip McGree wrote:
Backing up files onto a PC has its risks, the major one being that you'll lose the resource forks on the Mac files. A resource fork is a part of a file that tells the Mac what the file is, what application opens it, etc. That's why PCs have a .xxx suffix but Macs don't - the resource fork does the job.
Have the Mac versions of tar and cpio been extended to understand resource forks? If so, you could just copy a tarball to the PC and everything would be fine. Alternately, a mac-specific compression program like Stuffit (still around for OSX?) would do the job I expect.
Craig Ringer
